I Chronicles 29:11 "Thine, O LORD, is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty:for all that is in the heaven and in the earth is thine; thine is the kingdom, O LORD, and thou art exalted as head above all."

Friday, September 25, 2009

Plus, the only kind of worms we can get here are in our own back yard, not the ones that are soaked in the special liquid that makes them firm up and stink like a Dead Skunk in the Middle of the Road.

And I wouldn't want to spike one we dug up with pins and be a murderer. Never mind the fact I don't want to touch them AT ALL....

They have been looking forward to this lesson with a mixture of giddy anticipation and dread. Neither one of them have seen anything cut open before, so I wasn't sure how they would react.

The teacher went over the different types of worms first (flat, round, and segmented) and played with one for a while, showing the different parts of an earthworm. (The head, the saddle, and the slimy nastiness.) Ok so I made that last one up.

As she was going over the info, I could see Sleeping Beauty's hair start to curl, and a greenish tint come over her face. Good thing I recommended they do it right after Bible so it wasn't so close to lunch time. (And heaven forbid they do it after lunch!)

Who can blame her when the dissection is as big as the couch?After they watched the cutting and pinning, they had to label parts of a worm on their worksheet. The conversation went something like this: